BOSTON (AP) ― The surviving suspect in the deadly Boston Marathon bombing remained unable to speak with a gunshot wound to the throat, while the city’s police commissioner said the two suspects had such a large cache of weapons that they were probably planning other attacks. Federal authorities want to question the wife of the suspect who died after a gun battle with police, her lawyer said. Katherine Russell Tsarnaev learned her husband was a suspect by seeing it on TV, Amato DeLuca told the As

A baby girl was pulled alive from the wreckage of a deadly earthquake Sunday in China’s southwestern Sichuan province.The 3-month-old baby girl was discovered by rescue team under the rubble of a collapsed house after having been stuck there for more than 15 hours. The baby is in sound condition with only a few scratches, Chinese state media CCTV reported. However, the baby’s mother was found dead under collapsed buildings on the same day. Lushan County, where the earthquake occurred, was struck

LUSHAN, China (AFP) ― Thousands of rescue workers combed through flattened villages in southwest China on Sunday in a race to find survivors from a powerful quake as the toll of dead and missing rose past 200.Dressed in bright orange uniforms, rescuers battled their way up mountain paths strewn with wreckage to reach isolated parts of Sichuan province on the edge of the Tibetan Plateau.Army troops dressed in camouflage worked through the night, searching villages where houses had been destroyed

The two young men implicated in the recent terror bombings at the Boston Marathon last week are described by their neighbors as “regular American kids.” Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, ethnic Chechen brothers who arrived in the United States about 10 years ago, used to be seen riding bikes and skateboards on the street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where they lived.Authorities in the United States are turning their investigation of the two quiet and athletic brothers to a possible motive for the

AUSTIN, Texas ― Jim Moroney, publisher and CEO of the Dallas Morning News, faced the same problems that threatened other newspapers around the world: declining subscriber base and print advertising revenue. Proponents of digital-oriented media might argue that it is time to shift the company’s focus to online and mobile platforms to grapple with the woes of the print media, but Moroney said the digital-centered strategy is riddled with pitfalls, at least for newspapers. Moroney, who is also serv

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FRIBOURG, Switzerland (AFP) ― Denis Vipret moves around the circle of 20 people waiting for his healing touch, touching their shoulders and pumping his right hand lightly to transfer its energy to each patient. Vipret is a star among a soaring number of healers in Switzerland, and during his lightning visit to Geneva he expects to treat some 300 people eager to experience the “magic” in his hands. “With my left hand I detect what is wrong and with my right hand I heal,” says Vipret, a heavyset m